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Gently lit from above, the medieval celadon vases, cool and green, stand silent against a black background.
Not the most appealing metaphor, but the stone is truly gorgeous, appearing almost as though lit from within.
During the day, the lamps store energy from the intense desert sunlight in batteries large enough to keep them lit from dusk to dawn.
The bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson, will be lit from within its road and walkways and from the outside to provide a dramatic night time spectacle.
Then, about 200 men walk the route wearing half- to full-metre-tall paper bishop hats, lit from within by candles and cut with intricate, stained glass window-like designs featuring Saint Nicholas.
The vast, chaotic neon-lit view from the serene hotel emphasizes the loneliness of both main characters.
Birmingham Town Hall and the Dudley Canal Trust Tunnel and Cavern will also be lit up from 18:45 GMT.
The museum's 10 thematic galleries explore traditional aspects of pan-Asian culture, the focus shifting between exquisite, subtly-lit artefacts from Southeast Asia, China, India, Sri Lanka and even Turkey.
As the sun set, Maasai guards lit a path from our tent to a campfire surrounded by flickering lanterns.
We didn't think we would be forced to wave at them from our lit oil drums.
The town centre clock is being lit for 12 hours on Monday from 19:00 BST, the time April went missing.
It was a merry night, but I know some of our guests left exasperated and disappointed by the view from the expressway and the sense that we shouldn't stray too far from the well-lit hotel perimeter.
It may have been built to look old, but the souq is still a top spot for an evening out, wandering in and out of warmly-lit stalls and galleries selling everything from jewellery to spices, past groups of men smoking shisha and sipping mint tea.
On a hot June evening at a ramshackle former gliderport 30 miles east of Dallas, John Carmack's rocket engine lit up with its blue flame spewing from the nozzle.
In keeping with the opulence of those times, many thousands of sheets of gold leaf again adorn the steel pillars, lit by vast chandeliers created by glass blowers from Delhi.
When Williams needs inspiration, spare parts or a good giggle, he knows where to find it: the badly lit recesses of a bland building not far from the Mineta San Jose International Airport.
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Snapcase lit a hand-rolled cigarette with a match from a bar he favored.
Nicholls says the lit-up fields are still two years away from commercialization.
The dimly lit bar is a perfect spot to get away from the heat and commotion of the boardwalk, throw back a pint and check out the memorabilia lining the walls.
The local priest, surfacing from a week-long binge, lit beeswax tapers to Innocent of Irkutsk, the saint who in the 1720s had repaired the road to China and was now about to bring civilization to Prigorodnaia in the form of a ribbon of macadam with a freshly painted white stripe down the middle.
The rocket lit up a clear equatorial night sky and was visible from the ground for over six minutes.
And how that expression had come from World War I, because if you lit three cigarettes off one match in your foxhole or trench the enemy in his foxhole or trench had three pins of light to triangulate your location and then he blew up everything or maybe just shot you and your two buddies.
The first half was a scrappy affair, lit up only by Nick Easter's burst-through from the line-out to score a try in stoppage time.
It retains a reassuringly old-world feel: diners cram into wooden booths lit by candles and overhead lanterns, while aproned waiters bustle from the kitchen, carrying gleaming plates laden with sandwiches.
Visitors can join the lantern parade as it snakes its way through the site, lit by thousands of fairy lights, accompanied by singers and musicians from Eden.
Cipriani lit up the start of the second half with a searing break from deep before throwing a splendid reverse pass to Paul Sackey, but the wing's pass eluded his support runners.
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